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Winter 2012 Edition

A Sneak Peek into New Labor Forum’s Spring 2012 issue:
Labor and Occupy Wall Street: An Appraisal of the First Six Months

David Montgomery, labor historian (1927-2011) Please click here to read David’s 1999 New Labor Forum article

Fall 2010 Table of Contents

PDF Click here for PDF version of this Article


From the Editorial Team

Under the Radar
By Ben Becker
Unreported and under-reported news and views that matter.

On the Contrary
Why Labor’s Soldiering for the Democrats Is a Losing Battle
By Adolph Reed

Engaging with Democrats
By Bob Master

Forecasting the Midterms
The GOP in the Age of Obama: Will the Tea Party and Republican Establishment Unite or Fight?
By Gary Gerstle
How a fading minority party turned the tables on its vanquisher.

The Democratic Party in the Age of Obama: Yes We Can or No We Can’t?
By Thomas F. Schaller
What will it take to make the 2008 Obama triumph endure?


The Greening of America Revisited: Can the U.S. Create High-Skill Green Jobs?
By Andrew Ross
The U.S. is a Johnny-come-lately to renewable energy manufacturing.


Work and Inequality in the Global Economy: China, Mexico, and the United States
By Chris Tilly and Kent Wong, guest editors

The China Road: Why China Is Beating Mexico in the Competition for U.S. Markets
By Ian Robinson
Public-sector investment, not low wages, gives China the edge.

American Chicken Feet, Chinese Tires, and the Struggle for Labor Rights
By Anita Chan
The Chinese labor federation has a mixed record protecting the interests of Chinese workers.

Confronting Globalization: Lessons from Puebla
By Graciela Bensusán and Chris Tilly
In the absence of stronger systems of international labor solidarity, employer-led worker protections may hold more promise for improving jobs.

A Good Job Is Hard to Find: U.S. and Mexican Autoworkers in the Global Economy
By Jeffrey S. Rothstein
Globalization has undermined labor relations in the auto industry and the decent jobs they defend.

In the Rearview Mirror
By Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman
Revisiting the past to illuminate the present.

Economic Prospects
By Robert Pollin

Caught in the Web
By Liza Featherstone

Books and the Arts

Unfinished Revolution

Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in New York City
By Jane LaTour

Live Wire: Women and Brotherhood in the Electrical Industry

By Francine A. Moccio

Reviewed by Mary Margaret Fonow

The China Watch
New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China

By Yan Hairong


Reviewed by Katie Quan


Taking Back the Workers’ Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights

By Ellen Dannin


Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families

By Wade Rathke

Reviewed by Marc Dann


Contemporary Working-Class Poetry: Lots of Light, Very Little Heat

Odes to Anger

By Jason L. Yurcic

Velroy and the Madischie Mafia

By Sy Hoahwah

Blood Will Tell

By Craig Paulenich

Bar Book: Poems and Otherwise

By Julie Sheehan
Reviewed by Peter Oresick

Out of the Mainstream: Books and Films You May Have Missed
By Matt Witt

Poetry

Letters to the Editors

About Our Contributors


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